After a long day of Ken Ober death rumors, followed by rumors that the death rumors were just rumors, and finally confirmation that the initial rumors were actually true and not just rumors, it’s official:

Longtime MTV “Remote Control” host Ken Ober has passed away at the age of 52, the comedian’s representative confirmed to MTV News. The cause of his death was not available at press time.

Starting in 1987, Ober hosted five seasons of “Remote Control,” which, along with “Club MTV” and “The Week In Rock,” was MTV’s first foray into series television…

After “Remote Control,” Ober went on to host other game shows, like “Smush” and “Make Me Laugh.” In the years since, Ober worked as a supervising producer on “Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn,” a consulting producer on “Old Christine” and a writer and producer on “Mencia.”

With no disrespect to Ober, today was a bizarre reminder about the internet news cycle when it comes to semi-obscure celebrity deaths; the internet has almost put itself in a “Boy Who Cried Wolf” situation, where we’re so used to tuning out death rumors about 80s celebrities because they’re always later revealed to be hoaxes, that no one actually believed all the news, Tweets, and Facebook postings about Ober’s actual death today until it was later re-confirmed. Weird.

If Jaleel White ever dies, then hoo-boy, it’s gonna take a week for anyone on the internet to start believing that…